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stinky

adjective as in fusty

adjective as in perspiring

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Example Sentences

“It’s been intermittently smelling very fishy and stinky since then, especially when the wind is low.”

After all, you’ve come west from an old, dense, stinky, shrinking, corruption-plagued city while we wait here in a young, sprawling city that’s — well, OK, also stinky, shrinking and plagued by corruption.

Hot hot to get the interview, then a little stinky and smudged afterward.

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It’s sweaty stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens.

The pollinators are usually insects looking for the decaying carcasses of animals to lay eggs on, Tam said, “which is why they’re looking for stinky things. The flower is trying to mimic that odor of a dead carcass, and its entire base is a dark maroon red to mimic bloody carcasses of dead animals. Plants are just so fascinating, especially this one.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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